Bellatrix Star Half-Brother Headlines Newhaven Park Premier Draft

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Tuesday February 25

Owned and run by the Kelly family, Newhaven Park is one of those prolific stakes producing vendors that yearling buyers gravitate towards and there is never a long wait for the next stakes-winner to come along from their Boorowa based farm.

The Playwright on the inside wins the G3 Widden Stakes - image Bradley Photography

Heading into the Inglis Premier Sale starting on Sunday, bonnie filly The Playwright, is the latest Newhaven Park bred and sold stakes-winner taking out the Group III ATC Widden Stakes before running a brave fourth in the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes last weekend.

A $60,000 yearling purchase for Tricolour Syndications, she has returned over $800,000 providing a fabulous return for her happy owners.

Newhaven Park will present 15 yearlings at Inglis Premier by nine different sires and six in the draft are by Newhaven Park’s proven sire Xtravagant, who is enjoying a good season with quality sprinter Nadal leading the way thanks to his lucrative win in the $1million Ladbrokes The Meteorite last spring.

Headlining the draft is the half-brother by Nicconi to outstanding three year-old filly Bellatrix Star, who reeled of three successive stakes wins last spring including the Group II MRC Schillaci Stakes against older horses before her game second to Switzerland in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes.

Nicconi half-brother to Bellatrix Star.

Offered as Lot 20, this powerhouse chestnut colt is the fifth foal from Alana’s Party, who is the dam of three winners including Nicconi gelding Country Party, who has won twice in Hong Kong since the catalogue went to print.

This colt is bred on a very successful nick with Nicconi producing 13 winners from 14 runners out of Exceed and Excel mares with multiple Group placed stakes-winner Scorched Earth the best of them.

Click here for the full Newhaven Park draft with additional highlights below:

Lot 55 Filly Stay Inside x Backflash (USA), by Medaglia D’Oro

From the first crop of Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside. Third foal of stakes-placed half-sister by champion sire Medaglia D’Oro to stakes-winner Diamatic from the family of Champion US 3YO Filly Untapable.

Lot 108 Colt Xtravagant x Chloebell (Snitzel)

Second foal of a winning half-sister to the dam of multiple Group placed Rue de Royale with third dam the terrific producer and Group I winner La Baraka, whose descendants include Group I winners Alizee and Astern.

Lot 141 Filly Xtravagant x Disbelieve (GB), by Golden Horn

Second foal of an unraced daughter of Epsom Derby and Arc de Triomphe winning sire Golden Horn. Third dam is blue hen Dunnes River, the dam of 10 winners highlighted by Group I winner Cutlass Bay, Group winners Boscobel and Crown Walk as well as stakes-winner Crested.

Lot 142 Filly Xtravagant x Disco Queen by Dissident

Second foal of a placed half-sister to dual Group I winning $4.5million earner Zipping and stakes-winner Work the Room. From the family of Champion European 3YO Stayer and triple Group I winner Scorpion.

Lot 331 Colt Capitalist x Mitzi, by Encosta De Lago

By proven Group I sire Capitalist and is a sibling to four winners from an unraced sister to Group III placed Margham, the dam of juvenile stakes-winner Mohave.

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